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Byron C. Jaeger
I am an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics. I work in the School of Public Health at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
My research focuses on describing the role of diurnal (night-time) blood pressure patterns in developing cardiovascular disease and building predictive algorithms that can be used to support clinical decision-making.
Education
PhD, Biostatistics
Gilling’s School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2017 - 2012
- Thesis: Extending R-squared to the Generalized Linear Mixed Model
- Honors: Recipient of ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award
BS, Mathematics
Furman University
Greenville, South Carolina
2012 - 2008
- Thesis: Modeling three-dimensional pathways for the Tsunami Bar
- Honors: Recipient of DeLany Medal for Excellence in Mathematics
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Present - 2017
- Investigating mechanisms of cardiovascular disease and hypertension
- developing machine learning algorithms to identify who may benefit from initiating antihypertensive medications
Adjunct Professor of Statistics
North Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
2017 - 2016
Undergraduate and graduate instructor in biostatistics and statistical learning
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Gilling’s School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2017 - 2014
- Intro to Biostatistics and Longitudinal Data Analysis
- Statistics Tutor, School of Nursing
Graduate Research Assistant
Gilling’s School of Global Public Health
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2017 - 2012
Teaching Experience
BST 680: Introduction to R
University of Alabama at Birmingham
N/A
Present - 2017
- Students develop core competencies in data analysis (import, clean, transform, visualize, and tabulate) using
R. - Course structure promotes interactive lectures and group exercises.
- Final exam: a comprehensive research project using
R markdown.
Publications
CVD and Mortality in Adults Aged 60+ Years According to Recommendations by the ACC/AHA and ACP/AAFP
BC Jaeger, DE Anstey, AP Bress, JN Booth III, M Butler, … P Muntner
Hypertension, 73 (2), 327-334
N/A
2019
- Citations: 3
- DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.118.12291
One of my favorite applied papers
Oblique random survival forests
BC Jaeger, DL Long, DM Long, M Sims, JM Szychowski, … N Simon
The Annals of Applied Statistics, 13 (3), 1847-1883
N/A
2019
- Citations: 1
- DOI: 10.1214/19-AOAS1261
One of my favorite methods papers
Grants submitted
Establishing Medicare Based Estimation for Cardiovascular Disease (EMBED)
Primary Investigator: BC Jaeger
N/A
2019
- Submitted to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH/DHHS
- In revision, 1K01HL153624-01
R Packages
obliqueRSF
Oblique random survival forest (ORSFs)
N/A
2020 - 2018
- GitHub Repository
- Total downloads: 9,145
- Total citations: NA
r2glmm
Compute model and semi-partial R-squared for mixed models
N/A
2020 - 2016
- GitHub Repository
- Total downloads: 22,975
- Total citations: 110